Escape From America Magazine - Volume Two

Escape From America Magazine - Volume Two - Issue Number Four

Escape From America Magazine
Volume Two - Issue Number Four

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Robin's Nest

Passion Play In Paris - Click Here - By Robin Sparks - I set out to “know” Paris in my favorite way -- by blending in and pretending to be one of its residents. I negotiated Paris via the Metro. I sipped kirs at Les Deux Maggots (OK, so I did hit one or two tourist spots). At en plein aire cafés I stared unabashedly with the rest of the audience at the street theatre as it strolled past. I learned quickly to pick out the Frenchmen from other European males by the similarity of their narrow noses and lips, wire rimmed glasses, receding hairlines, and thousand dollar suits. I shopped daily at the patisseries and the boucheries and the tabacs and the outdoor markets. I paraded down the Champs-Elysées adapting the I-Love-Being-A-Woman attitude that French women wear so well.

Jobs Overseas

The Fulbright Teachers Exchange Program - A Step By Step Guide - Click Here - By
Pamela Campbell and Igor Smirnov - After spending 8 years teaching in Europe, this time I decided to go on a Fulbright exchange. As a "Fulbrighter," you don't have to quit your job, sell your house or make any major changes. And you can still cut your tax bill by deducting all related expenses for yourself and the accompanying family members (air fare, travel gear, etc.). One English teacher from Rosemount, Minnesota says that one year as a Fulbright foreign-exchange teacher in Hungary left her so invigorated that she took a leave of absence and a pay cut to stay a second year.

Unique Lifestyles

Living On A Boat - One Woman's Transition To Living Onboard A Boat - Click Here - By Jillian Simensky - The summers are filled with activity. The boatyard fills with seasonal boaters, friends we see only for those glorious months. Spending the weekends on the bay, or a trip to Fire Island instantly washes away the residue of the week's stress. Starting the day off with a cup of coffee on the deck, feeding the ducks and swans that gather noisily at the waterline makes all the difference in dealing with the upcoming day at work.
The Argentine Gaucho's World - The International Photo- Essays of Gustavo Gatto - Click Here - Argentina! What could be more romantic than Argentina? Many of us dream of making a living from our creative efforts and living offshore in places like Argentina. What could be more pleasurable then being a photographer that travels around the world and creates photo essays? Gustavo Gatto does just that. This photo essay on The Argentine Gaucho's World is typical of the fine work that Gustavo creates. It's a pleasure to be able to feature it in our webZine.

Offshore Investing

Investing In China: The 21 Century Powerhouse - Click Here - By Doug Casey - "Most Americans are provincial. If they travel anywhere, it's likely to be to Western Europe; the Orient (forget about Africa and South America) is pretty much Terra Incognita. The distinctions between the different countries and cultures in the Orient -which are as least as great as those in Europe - escape most of them." One of the leading investment consultants in the world, Doug Casey is well known as an authority on international investments. Casey has lived in seven countries, and visited over 150 ~ most several times. In this article on China Doug talks about the current investment climate in China and discusses, Shanghai, which he calls The Blade Runner City, Beijing, Democracy & Freedom, State & Party, Falun Gong, Societal differences, and why the future in China is better than just good. This article is a must for anyone concerned with the future, with investments, with the way the world is changine and what those changes mean to us.
My Secrets to a Lifetime of Making Money in Overseas Real Estate - Click Here - by Gary Scott - If we can now buy a ranch in Argentina (or Uruguay, or New Zealand, or name your spot,) for ten cents on the dollar of what a similar property inside the United States would cost us, and if we can carry on commerce from anywhere we are, how long do you imagine it's going to take your neighbor to realize the very same thing? As one writer put it, "those folks who buy that ranch in Argentina today are going to have grandchildren who will think they were a genius." Gary Scott tells us more, in an article from the best of International Living.
Women & Wall Street - Click Here - By Bill Bonner from the Daily Reckoning - "The conversation of women is a pleasure. Especially French women. They seem to have been trained for small talk -- never at a loss for words. But maybe it is just the way their lips pout and purse as they talk. They seem to cut the French vowels so carefully, like a precision machine tool. The sounds emerge like diamonds, cut and polished on every side."

Living Overseas

The Nitty-Gritty Of Moving To Mexico - Click Here - By Jennifer Rose - Part two of an article by Jennifer Rose on moving to Mexico - Jennifer Rose is an attorney, writer and editor living in Morelia, Michoacan, who toiled for two decades in a prior life as a lawyer in Shenandoah, Iowa. She is editor-in-chief of GPSolo, formerly The Compleat Lawyer, a magazine published by the American Bar Association.
Escape Artist Evaluation of Australia As a Expatriate Destination - Click Here - As pointed out in the book Escape From America, measuring a nation's potential as an expatriate destination by looking only at the level of wages & personal income is foolish. Level of income tells you nothing other than how much is being earned. It doesn't tell you the price of tomatoes, the quality of the schools, nor the level of crime. If you have to put bars on your windows, bus your children 15 miles to a civilized school and eat polluted tomatoes, you've lost income and quality of life - - Australia is noted for many things, but most of all it is noted for it's excellent quality of life.

Also Also Also

The Revised Parable Of The Ant And The Grasshopper - Click Here - We all know the parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. A reader of our webZine sent us this witty neo-parable of the same tale told backwards. In this version the hardworking ant is sacrificed in the name of 'social equality' and 'fairness.' It's almost funny.
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